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Ryu Jae-cheol, CEO of LG Electronics, said the company will accelerate efforts to secure an early lead in the actuator market, a key component that functions as a robot’s joints.
In a social media post on the 23rd, Ryu said, “This year, we plan to complete the buildout of a mass-production system for actuators and apply them directly to the intelligent home robot ‘LG Cloi.’”
He added, “Next year, we will supply key components to global partners and move in earnest into external markets,” and said LG aims to expand “to the industrial high-torque segment by 2030” to position the company as a “global total actuator solution provider.”
Ryu previously stressed at last month’s regular shareholders meeting that LG would move fully into actuator design and production. At the time, he said the company would establish a mass-production system within the year based on “Axiom,” the actuator brand introduced at CES 2026 in January.
LG’s robot business is one of the CEO’s four key priorities, along with AI data center (AIDC) cooling solutions, smart factories and AI home initiatives.
LG has designed and produced motors in-house since 1962 and has infrastructure to manufacture 45 million motors a year across seven production sites in five countries.
Ryu said that scale allows LG to offer durability, reliability and price competitiveness that rivals find difficult to copy. He said the company has internalized both design and production of motors and drivers and is continuing to strengthen in-house capabilities in reducers.
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